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NULL Pointer Dereference in CMP Client Revocation Response Handling

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Issue summary: A CMP client that requests certificate revocation on the basis of a PKCS#10 CSR may dereference a NULL pointer and terminate abnormally when processing a crafted revocation response. Impact summary: The NULL pointer dereference happens on a read which leads to a crash and a Denial of Service for the affected client application. CWE: CWE-476: NULL-pointer dereference Description: A CMP client revoking a certificate has to tell the server which certificate to revoke, and may do so by supplying a PKCS#10 CSR instead of the certificate itself or its issuer name and serial number. This is 'openssl cmp -cmd rr -csr ' on the command line, or OSSL_CMP_exec_RR_ses() with the certificate supplied via OSSL_CMP_CTX_set1_p10CSR() through the API. A CSR does not contain the issuer name and serial number of the certificate, so the client does not send them. A server may optionally name the certificate it revoked in its response, and the client then compares that name against what it sent. Having sent neither an issuer name nor a serial number, it has nothing to compare against, and a server returning a specially crafted name causes the client to read from a NULL pointer and crash. The revocation response is checked for valid message protection before the affected code is reached, so an attacker must be a malicious or compromised CMP server, or a man-in-the-middle in possession of the secret used for message protection. Clients that identify the certificate to be revoked by a

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CVE-2026-75805

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-75805

OpenSSL

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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  {
    "vendor": "OpenSSL",
    "product": "OpenSSL",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "4.0.0",
        "lessThan": "4.0.3",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.6.0",
        "lessThan": "3.6.5",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.5.0",
        "lessThan": "3.5.9",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.4.0",
        "lessThan": "3.4.8",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.0.0",
        "lessThan": "3.0.23",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
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